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To Maj Gen Thomas From Maj Gen Sherman Aug 5 1864

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Head Qtrs. Mil. Div of the Miss
In the fields near Atlanta, Geo. August 5th 1864

Man: Gen. Thomas
Cmidg. Dept of the Cumbd

General

Gen. Milroy’s letter of
July 26th with your endorsement is now before me.
He asks to suppress the sale and circulation in
his Dist. of certain mischievous and treasonable news-
papers, and transmits certain slips as proof of the
mischievous, tendency of there contents. I have
no objections whatever, but in human nature
there is so much of the mule left that prohibition
of a newspaper increases its circulation, so long
as freedom of the press is one of the foundations
Stress of our government. I think we must allow
it to work out its solution, the Reduction ad absurdum
of the mathematicians. It has been the chief cause
of this horrid war. It has undermined all that
was good, and generous, and magnanininous in the
character of the American People. It has made false issues,
it has kindled the wildest passions and kept them
alive till reason no longer even pretended to
enter into our national affairs. It has cost us two
thousand million dollars, has destroyed half a million

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Head Qtrs. Mil. Div of the Miss
In the fields near Atlanta, Geo. August 5th 1864

Man: Gen. Thomas
Cmidg. Dept of the Cumbd

General

Gen. Milroy’s letter of
July 26th with your endorsement is now before me.
He asks to suppress the sale and circulation in
his Dist. of certain mischievous and treasonable news-
papers, and transmits certain slips as proof of the
mischievous, tendency of there contents. I have
no objections whatever, but in human nature
there is so much of the mule left that prohibition
of a newspaper increases its circulation, so long
as freedom of the press is one of the foundations
Stress of our government. I think we must allow
it to work out its solution, the Reduction ad absurdum
of the mathematicians. It has been the chief cause
of this horrid war. It has undermined all that
was good, and generous, and magnanininous in the
character of the American People. It has made false issues,
it has kindled the wildest passions and kept them
alive till reason no longer even pretended to
enter into our national affairs. It has cost us two
thousand million dollars, has destroyed half a million

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This item is owned by the Jasper County Public Library. Permission to publish or reproduce this item is required and must be obtained from the Director of the Jasper County Public Library, Rensselaer, Indiana. Please visit www.myjcpl.org for more information.